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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORN BROOM.

Specification forming; part of Letters Patent N o. 32,504, dated June 11, 1861, Reissued August 29, 1865, No. 2,059.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. L. W. BAKER, of Hartford, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Corn Brooms; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawings; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same I will proceed to describe its construction, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

The nature of this improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms, consists in securing the brush, in separate tufts, into a wood head, by the use of adhesive substance, and in securing the handleinto the head, by a screw on the end thereof, the object of which is, to produce a broom, equally useful and durable, made of less brush, by less labor, presenting a broad flexible brush to the surface, upon which it is to be used and to render it more convenient for transportation because of the great saving of room in storing.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l, is a sectional side elevation, and Fig. 2, is a sectional end elevation of my improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.

(a) are tufts of corn brush.

(c) is the head of the broom, made of wood, or other suitable material, having apertures into which the tufts 4of corn brush are secured, by means of any suitable adhesive substance.

(d) is the handle of the broom, having a screw made on, or secured to the end thereof (see e) by the use of which it is quickly secured to the head of the broom, or removed therefrom, the said head also having a nut corresponding with and to receive the screw (c).

By securing the tufts of corn brush into the head at proper distances apart, the iexibility ofthe broom will continue, until it is worn nearly up to the wood head, which can- Vnot be the case in the common tie broom.

Besides when the common tie broom is worn up, and thrown aside the same brush thus lost, if made up in this way, would do as much service (nearly or quite) as the first use of the broom (the tie broom).

For the purpose of transportation they can be packed in much less space than the tie broom, and one handle will be sufficient for an indefinite number of brooms. broom with its handle may be detached and packed away in a chest or trunk, when desirable. In short, it is cheaper of manufacture a better and more useful article, and every way better calculated to please the housekeeper.

I believe I have thus shown the nature construction, and advantage derived by this improvement over others now in use, so as to enable a person skilled to make and use the same.

What I claim therefore and desire to secure by Letters Patent is p An improved article of manufacture, consisting of a broom, being composed of the fiber of broom corn set in tufts in a block of wood substantially in the manner, as :and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of January GHS. L. W. BAKER. Witnesses:

EDWARD WV. BLISS, JEREMY W. BLISS.

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